Mike Campbell’s music will inevitably be compared to that of his friend and former musical partner, the late Tom Petty.

Things can continue like that in the studio, too. The road to making the Tom Petty album Southern Accents sounds like it should have been a living Hell. As Petty tried to make his most ambitious album ...

As the opening track to the Heartbreakers' debut album, "Rockin' Around (With You)" could be considered the opening track to ...

As he celebrates the release of his memoir, Heartbreaker, Tom Petty’s right-hand man and dear friend reflects on a career’s ...

AP The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the U.S. and around the world. A series of research ...

Doesn't it just jar your preserves when Hollywood thinks we all sound like Scarlett O'Hara. Check out our list of worst Southern accents.

Tom Petty wrote so many brilliant songs at such a prolific pace that it made sense that others would want to piggyback on that talent. In one instance, that created a bit of an uptown problem for ...

Tom Petty's family says his death last year was due to an accidental drug overdose. His wife and daughter released the results of Petty's autopsy via a statement on his Facebook page Friday night.

“My accent is nonexistent,” said Ira Levine, her oldest son. “People I work with, and even in school, people didn’t believe I was from Atlanta.” The Southern accent, which has many ...

Yet, her two sons, born over 25 years later and also raised in Atlanta, grew up without a trace of the same Southern cadence. "My accent is nonexistent," said Ira Levine, her eldest son.